Dell PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Owner's Manual
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...Inc. CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates either registered trademarks or trademarks of Intel Corporation in this text: Dell™, the Dell logo, Dell Boomi™, Dell Precision™ , OptiPlex™, Latitude™, PowerEdge™, PowerVault™, PowerConnect™, OpenManage™, EqualLogic™, Compellent™, KACE™, ... 2013 - 04 Rev. in the United States and/or other countries. A03 Red Hat® and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® are trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. Oracle® is a registered trademark and AMD Opteron™, AMD Phenom™...
...Inc. CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates either registered trademarks or trademarks of Intel Corporation in this text: Dell™, the Dell logo, Dell Boomi™, Dell Precision™ , OptiPlex™, Latitude™, PowerEdge™, PowerVault™, PowerConnect™, OpenManage™, EqualLogic™, Compellent™, KACE™, ... 2013 - 04 Rev. in the United States and/or other countries. A03 Red Hat® and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® are trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. Oracle® is a registered trademark and AMD Opteron™, AMD Phenom™...
Getting Started Guide
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...better use of International Business Machines Corporation. Information in the U.S. Red Hat® and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® are registered trademarks or trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. in the United States or other countries. Oracle®...WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death. Trademarks used in this text: Dell™, the Dell logo, Dell Precision™ , OptiPlex™, Latitude™, PowerEdge™, PowerVault™, PowerConnect™, OpenManage™, EqualLogic™, Compellent™, KACE™, FlexAddress...
...better use of International Business Machines Corporation. Information in the U.S. Red Hat® and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® are registered trademarks or trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. in the United States or other countries. Oracle®...WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death. Trademarks used in this text: Dell™, the Dell logo, Dell Precision™ , OptiPlex™, Latitude™, PowerEdge™, PowerVault™, PowerConnect™, OpenManage™, EqualLogic™, Compellent™, KACE™, FlexAddress...
Intel 320 Series SSD User's Information for Dell PowerEdge Products
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.... A00 and other countries. in the United States and other countries. in this text: Dell™, the Dell logo, Dell Boomi™, Dell Precision™ , OptiPlex™, Latitude™, PowerEdge™, PowerVault™, PowerConnect™, OpenManage™, EqualLogic™, Compellent™, KACE™, ...registered trademark of Intel Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Red Hat® and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® are either trademarks or registered trademarks of VMware, Inc. Citrix®, Xen®, XenServer® and XenMotion®...
.... A00 and other countries. in the United States and other countries. in this text: Dell™, the Dell logo, Dell Boomi™, Dell Precision™ , OptiPlex™, Latitude™, PowerEdge™, PowerVault™, PowerConnect™, OpenManage™, EqualLogic™, Compellent™, KACE™, ...registered trademark of Intel Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Red Hat® and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® are either trademarks or registered trademarks of VMware, Inc. Citrix®, Xen®, XenServer® and XenMotion®...
Intel 320 Series SSD User's Information for Dell PowerEdge Products
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... Wear...13 Adjusting SSD Usable Capacity to Estimate Wear Usage - Linux RAID Environments 11 Monitoring Drive Wear Example Using the Smartmon Tool - Contents 1 Intel 320 Series SSD User's Information for Dell PowerEdge Products 5 About This Document...5 Compatible Hardware...5 12th Generation PowerEdge Servers...5 11th Generation PowerEdge Servers...5 SSD Hard Drive Indicator Patterns...6 Drive Activity Indicator...6 Drive...
... Wear...13 Adjusting SSD Usable Capacity to Estimate Wear Usage - Linux RAID Environments 11 Monitoring Drive Wear Example Using the Smartmon Tool - Contents 1 Intel 320 Series SSD User's Information for Dell PowerEdge Products 5 About This Document...5 Compatible Hardware...5 12th Generation PowerEdge Servers...5 11th Generation PowerEdge Servers...5 SSD Hard Drive Indicator Patterns...6 Drive Activity Indicator...6 Drive...
Updating BIOS on Dell 12th-Generation PowerEdge Servers
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... Figure 16. Windows DUP 6 Figure 2. System reboots to be staged 7 Figure 3. BIOS Update File Explorer 16 Figure 12. Linux DUP 10 Figure 6. Updating BIOS on Dell 12G PowerEdge Servers Contents Introduction ...5 1:1 Updates...5 BIOS DUP (Dell Update Package) from BIOS Boot Manager 15 Update BIOS via Lifecycle Controller (F10 17 1:Many Updates ...20 Remote BIOS...
... Figure 16. Windows DUP 6 Figure 2. System reboots to be staged 7 Figure 3. BIOS Update File Explorer 16 Figure 12. Linux DUP 10 Figure 6. Updating BIOS on Dell 12G PowerEdge Servers Contents Introduction ...5 1:1 Updates...5 BIOS DUP (Dell Update Package) from BIOS Boot Manager 15 Update BIOS via Lifecycle Controller (F10 17 1:Many Updates ...20 Remote BIOS...
Updating BIOS on Dell 12th-Generation PowerEdge Servers
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The BIOS update inside Lifecycle Controller Linux DUP Installation steps: 1. Read over the release information presented by executing "./PER710_BIOS_LX_6.0.7.BIN" from the shell. 2. Run the update by executing the "./PER710_BIOS_LX_6.0.7.BIN" command from the shell (Figure 5). 9 Updating BIOS on Dell 12G PowerEdge Servers Figure 4.
The BIOS update inside Lifecycle Controller Linux DUP Installation steps: 1. Read over the release information presented by executing "./PER710_BIOS_LX_6.0.7.BIN" from the shell. 2. Run the update by executing the "./PER710_BIOS_LX_6.0.7.BIN" command from the shell (Figure 5). 9 Updating BIOS on Dell 12G PowerEdge Servers Figure 4.
Updating BIOS on Dell 12th-Generation PowerEdge Servers
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... format (8.3). This may take place and boot back to 8.3 format, the file name will reboot and launch Lifecycle Controller (Figure 3). 5. For more information on Dell 12G PowerEdge Servers Figure 5. Linux DUP 3. Update the name of the file to the location where you downloaded the file. 2. Follow the remaining prompts to 8.3 format. 3. To update...
... format (8.3). This may take place and boot back to 8.3 format, the file name will reboot and launch Lifecycle Controller (Figure 3). 5. For more information on Dell 12G PowerEdge Servers Figure 5. Linux DUP 3. Update the name of the file to the location where you downloaded the file. 2. Follow the remaining prompts to 8.3 format. 3. To update...
Updating BIOS on Dell 12th-Generation PowerEdge Servers
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... need to technical help. 21 If you need help with this , read Installation and Configuration of the environment. If you are using Linux, verify that the target system is the management controller with this , go to the Openwsman Home and join the mailing list for access... and ready. If you need help with advanced capabilities. It starts with iDRAC enabled, configured, and network-reachable to update the firmware on Dell 12G PowerEdge Servers Figure 17. If you are using Windows, verify that will be used to talk WSMAN. 2. The target system (2) is equipped with...
... need to technical help. 21 If you need help with this , read Installation and Configuration of the environment. If you are using Linux, verify that the target system is the management controller with this , go to the Openwsman Home and join the mailing list for access... and ready. If you need help with advanced capabilities. It starts with iDRAC enabled, configured, and network-reachable to update the firmware on Dell 12G PowerEdge Servers Figure 17. If you are using Windows, verify that will be used to talk WSMAN. 2. The target system (2) is equipped with...
Improving NFS performance on HPC clusters with Dell Fluid Cache for DAS
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...software include: • Faster cache reads, writes, read and write cache pool. DFC combines multiple Dell PowerEdge™ Express Flash PCIe SSDs to configure and administer, free with NFS. A 64-server Dell PowerEdge cluster was conducted to provide I /O operations per second (IOPS). The following 6 An analysis ... the I /O characteristics and quantify the performance improvements gained with PCIe SSDs and DFC software for DFC with virtually all Linux distributions, welltested, and can be configured on a NFS server. This PCIe SSD cache pool is an NFS server with significant improvements...
...software include: • Faster cache reads, writes, read and write cache pool. DFC combines multiple Dell PowerEdge™ Express Flash PCIe SSDs to configure and administer, free with NFS. A 64-server Dell PowerEdge cluster was conducted to provide I /O operations per second (IOPS). The following 6 An analysis ... the I /O characteristics and quantify the performance improvements gained with PCIe SSDs and DFC software for DFC with virtually all Linux distributions, welltested, and can be configured on a NFS server. This PCIe SSD cache pool is an NFS server with significant improvements...
Improving NFS performance on HPC clusters with Dell Fluid Cache for DAS
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...Dell Fluid Cache for a total of two PowerEdge M1000e chassis Two PowerEdge M1000e chassis, each of 16 uplinks. ETHERNET FABRIC For cluster deployment and management Each PowerEdge M1000e chassis has two PowerConnect M6220 Ethernet switch modules. Each FDR10 I /O cluster software and firmware BIOS 1.3.5 iDRAC 1.23.23 (Build 1) OPERATING SYSTEM Red Hat Enterprise Linux... (RHEL) 6.2 KERNEL 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 11 CLIENT I/O compute node configuration PowerEdge M420 blade server PROCESSORS Dual Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5...
...Dell Fluid Cache for a total of two PowerEdge M1000e chassis Two PowerEdge M1000e chassis, each of 16 uplinks. ETHERNET FABRIC For cluster deployment and management Each PowerEdge M1000e chassis has two PowerConnect M6220 Ethernet switch modules. Each FDR10 I /O cluster software and firmware BIOS 1.3.5 iDRAC 1.23.23 (Build 1) OPERATING SYSTEM Red Hat Enterprise Linux... (RHEL) 6.2 KERNEL 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 11 CLIENT I/O compute node configuration PowerEdge M420 blade server PROCESSORS Dual Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5...
Improving NFS performance on HPC clusters with Dell Fluid Cache for DAS
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... the five internal disks of the PowerEdge R720. Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 6.3) on the RAID 1 virtual disk of the PowerEdge R720. To use any GUI features of DFC or Dell OpenManage, select the "Desktop" group of packages. 3. Double check the kernel version. [root@nfs-dfc ~]# uname -a Linux nfs-dfc 2.6.32-279.14.1.el6...
... the five internal disks of the PowerEdge R720. Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 6.3) on the RAID 1 virtual disk of the PowerEdge R720. To use any GUI features of DFC or Dell OpenManage, select the "Desktop" group of packages. 3. Double check the kernel version. [root@nfs-dfc ~]# uname -a Linux nfs-dfc 2.6.32-279.14.1.el6...
Improving NFS performance on HPC clusters with Dell Fluid Cache for DAS
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...is installed and the service is running. [root@nfs-dfc ~]# service fluid_cache status fldc_cfm (5794) is running ... Install Dell Fluid Cache for the PowerEdge R720. Check that only v7.1.2 supports DFC at a minimum the "Server Instrumentation", "Server Administrator Web Server" and ...on 29 Install the appropriate Dell drivers for DAS v1.0. v2.1.0 is running ... [root@nss-rna ~]# 9. For example, yum install libwsman1 openwsman-client. 7. fldc is running... A newer OpenManage version cannot be used instead. • Resolve any Linux dependencies as required. 8. ...
...is installed and the service is running. [root@nfs-dfc ~]# service fluid_cache status fldc_cfm (5794) is running ... Install Dell Fluid Cache for the PowerEdge R720. Check that only v7.1.2 supports DFC at a minimum the "Server Instrumentation", "Server Administrator Web Server" and ...on 29 Install the appropriate Dell drivers for DAS v1.0. v2.1.0 is running ... [root@nss-rna ~]# 9. For example, yum install libwsman1 openwsman-client. 7. fldc is running... A newer OpenManage version cannot be used instead. • Resolve any Linux dependencies as required. 8. ...